Ilpo Seppälä

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Ilpo Kalervo Seppälä (born October 16, 1953 in Vitasaari ) is a former Finnish wrestler . He won a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman style bantamweight at the 1981 World Championships.

Career

Ilpo Seppäla started wrestling at the Riihimypen Kisko wrestling club as a teenager . He later moved to the Helsingin Tarmon club . He wrestled in national competitions in both styles, Greco-Roman style and free style. At international championships, where he was used from 1977, he wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style.

He won his first medal at the Finnish Senior Championships in 1970 when he took 3rd place in the flyweight, Greco-Roman style. He was only 16 years old. He was Finnish champion for the first time in 1975. He won it in free style in featherweight before Jussi Vesterinen and Hannu Övermark . In total, he won four Finnish championship titles in his career.

He celebrated his first international success in Helsinki in 1971 . He was there Nordic junior champion in the Greco-Roman style in bantamweight. During his military service he won in 1974 at the CISM military world championship in Rome in the featherweight, Greco-Roman style, behind the Italian Domenico Giuffrida the silver medal .

In 1977 he was used for the first time at a European championship. In Bursa he came in the featherweight with two wins and two losses on the 7th place. At the world championship this year in Gothenburg he got three wins, including a. a. Stylianos Migiakis of Greece defeated. From Nelson Dawidjan from the USSR and Lars Malmkvist from Sweden but was defeated and came on the 6th Place.

Ilpo Seppälä missed a job at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow because he lost to Hannu Övermark at the Finnish championships in the Greco-Roman style featherweight .

After a long break, it was only used again at the 1981 World Cup in Oslo . He had trained in the bantamweight. A measure that was successful, because he won there over Peter Balow from Bulgaria, Ilya Rostowzew from the USSR, Benni Ljungbeck from Sweden and in the pool final even over Pasquale Passarelli from Germany , who was already the pool winner before this fight and is therefore in the Could spare the fight against Seppälä. Against Antonio Caltabiano lost Ilpo Seppälä. With these results he became bronze medalist behind Pasquale Passarelli and Josef Krysta from the CSSR .

In three other starts at international championships, Ilpo Seppälä then won no more medals. At the 1983 World Cup in Kiev , he only came in 10th place in bantamweight. At the European Championships in Jönköping in 1984 he defeated the eventual world champion Patrice Mourier from France , but lost to Benni Ljungbeck and Pasquale Passarelli , which brought him 7th place. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles he disappointed, because he lost to the outsider Ronny Sidge from Norway and again against Benni Ljungbeck and only ended up in 11th place.

After that, Ilpo Seppälä ended his international wrestling career. But he is still active and a very successful wrestler at the Masters (from 35 years). Professionally, he works in the financial sector.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, Fl = flyweight, Ba = bantamweight, Fe = featherweight, at that time up to 52 kg, 57 kg and 62 kg body weight)

Finnish championships

  • 1970, 3rd place, GR, Fl, behind Tuomo Kallijärvi and Hannu Järvinen,
  • 1975, 1st place, F, Fe, ahead of Jussi Vesterinen and Hannu Övermark ,
  • 1976, 2nd place, GR, Fe, behind Pekka Hjelt and in front of Jouko Kuossari,
  • 1976, 2nd place, F, Le, behind Kari Övermark and in front of Jouko Kuossari,
  • 1977, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Hannu Övermark and Einari Suutari,
  • 1977, 2nd place, F, Le, behind Kari Övermark and in front of Hannu Övermark,
  • 1978, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Pekka Rauhala and Pauli Salimäki,
  • 1979, 2nd place, GR, Fe, ahead of Jouko Kuossari and ahead of Hannu Övermark,
  • 1980, 2nd place, GR, Fe, behind Hannu Övermark and in front of Jukka Romppanen,
  • 1981, 3rd place, GR, Fe, behind Pekka Vehviläinen and Veli Perkkiö,
  • 1983, 1st place, GR, Ba, ahead of Aarne Leppänen and Juoni Luokkonen

swell

  • Athletics magazine , numbers: 5/1974, 9/1974 and 6/1075,
  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 5/1977, 6/7/1977, 2/1978, 9/1981, 10/1983, 5/1984 and 9/1984,
  • Website "www.painiliitto.fi"

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Seppälä, Ilpo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seppälä, Ilpo Kalervo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Vitasaari